Property update - January 2010

Wragge & Co's real estate experts bring you the latest property law issues. Read their comment on these issues and take note of any action points that will help you and your organisation.

• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme - consultation on the treatment of the CRC in the context of landlord and tenant relationships
• Landlord and tenant - is a virtual assignment a breach of an alienation covenant?
• Easements - change of use of benefited land from garden to housing does not affect easement
• Development - the right to connect to a public sewer
• Landlord and tenant - examination of a landlord's right to refuse renewal of a business tenancy if it intends to occupy the premises itself
• Easements - the court upholds a right to turn a car as an easement, notwithstanding that access is over third party land
• Landlord and tenant - a landlord's attempt to pursue an undertenant following disclaimer of the headlease, despite a surrender of the underlease
• Development- new consultation on zero carbon non-domestic buildings
• Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 -this Act, which will be bought into force on 6 April 2010, abolishes the rule against perpetuity for land interests created on or after that date
• Planning - Environmental Impact Assessments; Town and Village Greens; greater flexibility for planning permissions
• Access for disabled customers - another chance to read our alert on a landmark decision regarding the duty to make reasonable adjustments to premises

For the above analysis in one go read the full property update.